Yukon Education Department Services
The Educators’ Place: Supporting Educators with the Implementation of the Redesigned Curriculum
Resource Services
Student Support Services
ITSS Knowledge Base (KB)
Digital Classroom Tools
Apple Classroom: Classroom Allows you to guide lessons, manage activities, and keep everyone on task.
Apple Teacher Program: A free professional learning program designed to support and celebrate educators using Apple products for teaching and learning.
Google Workspace: A suite of tools that can help you increase opportunities for critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity, all while supporting the learning objectives that you have for your students.
Getting Started with Google Classroom Video Tutorials
Saving Teachers Time with Office 365
Office 365 for Education: A comprehensive platform of tools and apps that provide teachers and students with access to communication tools, document editing, file sharing, storage, email, class websites, assignments, classroom materials.
ShareEdBC: An online platform that provides teachers across BC & Yukon access to curated content aligned with BC’s new curriculum.
Technology Training Pathways for Yukon Teachers
Quick Video Tips for iPad and Mac
Curriculum Implementation
Communicating Student Learning Resource & Professional Development Tool
Assessment, planning and interim reporting guidelines for Grades K=9 and 10-12are located in the Curriculum Implementation section of the website as well as a variety of workshops and presentations. A tool has been developed specifically to support Yukon during the transition to the new curriculum and to support teachers professional; development in the area of assessment practices regarding communicating student learning and following the interim reporting guidelines that schools will follow over the next two years.
Mobile Technologies
6 Ways to Transform Learning with iPads
Resource Links
Apple Teacher Learning Centre: Access to training to build skills, collect badges, and earn recognition as an Apple Teacher.
B.C ERAC Digital Classroom: A suite of suite of digital resources to support student centered learning. Login information is located on First Class in Teachers’ Global Conferences/Digital Resources.
MediaSmarts: A collections of digital and media literacy resources; Yukon schools are licensed for a series of resources about digital and media literacy.
All the Right Type (ATRT): An educational tool to help improve typing speed and accuracy available to Yukon teachers. Please submit a ticket to the ITTS HelpDesk to have accounts created for your students.
Guidelines and Policy Forms
Yukon Education Internet Use & Web Publishing Permissions and Guidelines
App & Third Party Software Request
- Yukon Education-supported Apps K-7 2022-2023
- Yukon Education-supported Apps 8-12 2022-2023
- Framework for Choosing a Classroom App
- Online Learning App Evaluation Request Teachers submit for app requests.
School-Based Acquisition Request Forms
Organizations
Yukon Association of Education Professionals (YAEP)
Privacy Toolkit
The Privacy Toolkit was developed by the Department of Education’s Privacy Management Coordinator to educate and assist teachers with protecting the privacy and security of the personal information of their students. The Privacy Toolkit includes a PowerPoint presentation entitled Online Education Services Privacy Compliance. and a sample and template consent form.